For much of autumn and into winter, Bucer’s has been serving up Sumatran coffee in their drip carrafe. I can’t say that has been very exciting. I usually pass. Recently though, they’ve aquired some good Ethiopian beans with a very strong blue berry flavour. Really! You don’t have to be a coffee snob to notice it right up front, especially if it’s a fresh pot. So if you see the Ethiopian placard out over the carrafe, you may want to give it a shot. It’s VERY different than what is usually in there.
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Filed under: Bucer's Coffeehouse Pub on February 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
Pay no heed if you spot one of these…
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Filed under: Lore on January 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I interviewed Tim Rich, co-owner of Sister’s Brew. I’ll have the interesting parts up here in the next few days.
Filed under: Announcements on December 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
I had a business trip last week, which is about the only time I get to travel very far abroad. It was for software training in San Francisco, with a long layover in Seattle. I had often heard and read about some unique coffee these cities offered and decided to take my time between work visit the shrines and pay homage to the espresso saints that have passed on to the great golden carafe in the sky. None of my pictures where very good, so these are all from Flickr.
My first visit was to the Zoka coffee shop next to Greenlake in the north of Seattle. Zoka is a roaster with three shops in the Seattle area. Cafe Silos in Moscow uses their coffee and they are considered to have a really nice product. Also, I had been told their Greenlake shop had a very similar atmosphere to Bucer’s, with a lot of dark wood. It was true! The place was packed out too, but eerily quiet. Why? About 30+ laptop screens glowing. I joined in and made that 31. Read more »
Filed under: Out of town on December 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Drop that Starbuck’s milkshake you uncultured swine! (Just kidding)
On true gourmet coffee vs. everything else:
Great coffees, he [Peter Giuliano] says, should be brewed one at a time. “It isn’t consistent with the specialty coffee aesthetic to pre-brew and store coffee in the kind of thermoses you see in gas stations, hotel lobbies, or bullshit coffee shops where they sell French Vanilla.”
–God in a Cup
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Update: Pardon the prophanity in the quote above. I merely wished to demonstrate that there exists a high coffee culture that derides what most of the population has come to know and love. This is the same thing as a fan of French cuisine talking trash about McDonald’s. Wa hoo. They both have their respective merit. Whatever floats your boat!
Filed under: Lore on October 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s the busiest week of the year. The return of thousands of students to University of Idaho and Washington State University. Welcome back everyone who may have had a dearth of good espresso over the summer. Start the days out right.
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Filed under: Announcements on August 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the few cooking blogs I follow is cafefernando.com, written by a young Turkish food enthusiast. He only writes a couple times a month, but it’s always interesting and includes beautiful photos. A few weeks ago, he posted a recipe for making “Vietnamese” coffee ice cream at home using sweetened condensed milk. I decided to give it a go:
Ingredients
- 1 can (400 g) sweetened condensed milk
- 1 + 1/2 cup water (for brewing the coffee)
- 1/2 cup dark roast coffee
- 1 tbsp dark roast ground coffee
- 1/3 cup whole milk
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Filed under: Food, Home Brew on August 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
For years, Otto Keyes has been a sought-after harp technician and piano tuner. Now, settling down in Moscow, he’s gotten more serious about one of his hobbies: coffee roasting. Starting a few years ago with a popcorn popper, moving to a converted chicken rotisserie, banished from the house for the smoke, he now has a top-of-the line roaster setup and the experience with it to make some very nice beans.
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Filed under: Roasting on August 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The new Sharis restaurant (next to Applebees), is now open!
Finally, Moscow has a 24-hour breakfast joint again. I’ve heard that years ago, The Pantry was open all night, but didn’t like college students hanging out there for long periods of time to study. Big surprise, eh? Denny’s in Pullman has been the only 24-hours place around here for a long time (20 years?), but they also don’t like people hanging out. Go in there, order some coffee and read a book, and you will be asked to leave. Seriously. How’s that for service? Hopefully Sharis will be more friendly to people that want to camp out. Even if they’re not, at least we now have an option for a late-night pick-me-up.
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Filed under: Business on July 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
I have some upcoming posts in the works when time allows. This includes info and photos on our other local roaster, Otto Keyes and his Redfinn brand. Stay tuned.
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Filed under: Announcements on July 29th, 2008 | No Comments »